DEER SHOT FROM ROAD

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24306, 11 July 1944, Page 6

DEER SHOT FROM ROAD

♦ - FINE OF £2 IMPOSED (P.A.) ) WELLINGTON, July 10. A Wellington man, James Kirklgno Watt, went deer stalking. Passing along the Western Lake road, near Featherston, he saw a deer in a paddock adjoining tne road. He 'dropped it with a single snoi and was engaged in skinning it when ■ farmer arrived and told him the deer ws» a pet. and had run on his property for me last 20 years. „ . Watt came before Mr J. L. Stout, S.m.> in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, chargeQ under a section of the Public Works Act which prohibits the discharge of firearjns within 50 yards of a road. .. Counsel submitted reasons to jusmy Watt in shooting the deer and explalnea that he had apologised profusely when he discovered what he had done. He submitted that to keep a pet deer in open country which was known to be deer-in-fested was asking to have it exterminated. - • The Magistrate said the charge was of discharging a firearm from a public ro«o. not of killing the deer. Saying that we defendant should be more careful, he imposed a fine of £.2 with costs.